Six (6) Indonesian water/wastewater utilities have participated as ‘recipient’ twins in 7 wateroperators partnerships (WOPs) financed by WaterLinks. Established in 2008, WaterLinks is aregional network that helps build the capacity of Asia?Pacific water utilities to improve servicecoverage, delivery, financial sustainability, and other aspects of their performance. WaterLinks issupported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), United States Agency for International

BWI work organizing construction workers in an ADB-assisted railway rehabilitation project in Cambodia. Conclusions:
•During negotiations and organising work it became obvious that there was not enough time or effort taken by the ADB, the government or the project engineer to adequately forecast and monitor labour costs or variances of these

In India Power Sector Reforms begins in ninetees in the name of Liberalization, Privatizatin and Globalization. Electricity sector in Orrisa, Delhi & Mumbai were unbundled into various companies on PPP pattern. Government of India planned to privatize the SEBs in aphased manner, however, failure of Enron in Mumbai proved to be a big set-back so as BSES in Orrisa & Delhi and consequently no other state of India has been privatized. However, recently, Bihar electricity has moved its steps towards privatization.

Projects and programs financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) often have adverse social, environmental and economic impacts for which the Bank should be held accountable. As with other multilateral development banks, ADB is a public institution funded by taxpayers’ money and should therefore be made accountable to the public. The ADB, however, is immune from judicial proceedings and cannot be taken to court; the only available means is its Accountability Mechanism (AM).

A brief by on the ADB-assisted project in Bangladesh which will establish which will establish a cross-border electrical link between the western grid of Bangladesh and eastern grid of India to promote electricity trading between the two countries.

In September 2005, an 11-member high-level PSI-APRO delegation met for the first time with officials of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) at its Headquarters in Manila (Philippines) to discuss the harmful impacts on workers of the Bank’s projects/policies on privatization, particularly in the power, water and health sectors. PSI emphasized the need to create a labor desk at ADB to ensure that workers are fully consulted and core labor standards (CLS) are respected in ADB-assisted projects. PSI also urged ADB to put more support towards public

The management of Manila’s water and sewerage distribution system (MWSS) was privatized in August 1997 in what has largely been touted as a ‘successful’ water privatization, and the largest to date in the Asia-Pacific region. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, was adviser to the privatization, which resulted in two 25-year concessions (east and west) competitively bid.